but, of course, it's a good listener too. [ female announcer ] today cisco is connecting the internet of everything. so everything works like never before. >>> there is -- one of us has to be the lover of the free and one of us has to be sort of the one that points out the downside to all of the congestion and traffic, right now, grinchy. we couldn't play the grinch if i didn't pretend to be that. >> you wear it well. >> i do wear it well. good morning and welcome back to "squawk box" here on cnbc. i'm joe kernen along with becky quick and andrew ross sorkin continues off today. making headlines this morning, disney boosting its yearly dividend by 15%. i'll bet you they've listed their quarterly dividend by 50%, too. ridesing on the news in expanded trading, i think i would like to know what it's yielding instead of having that info in a vacuum. so quickly de-decembering that, it could be a 1.5. >> in tech news, the semi conductor add mip stroigz reports worldwide conductor of chips reached 27.1 billion and that's an increase from the same month last year. the industry's first ever mo